Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience.

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What the developers have to say:

“PLEASE READ OUR DEV ROAD MAP BELOW. ANIMATED RIDES COMING PHASE 2, COASTERS PHASE 3 Theme Park Studio is still in development and is being released in stages. Please only purchase if you are interested in being involved in the ongoing development of this exciting project. This includes testing, debugging, and supplying new feature requests! We listen to our backers! We have been, and continue to be, a community based project!!!

PLEASE NOTE: Coaster construction is 60 percent complete and will be released in a future stage (see development roadmap below).

Current Status:

As described on our Kickstarter update, this first release basically allows our community to get started designing their parks, creating custom assets, and importing/sharing custom scenery.

Most modules are 70 percent complete. Each will be released in phases, with additional modules unlocked as we polish and add new features requested by the community.

Looking back, the game has branched out way beyond its original design, as we listened to our customer base. We have held focus group meetings with backers, interacted with forum members, and truly set out to build the ultimate theme park sandbox game, shaped by the community.

Below is our current development road map:

The Current Build Includes:

Full featured editor with easy to use transform tools and helper functions.

Dynamic Custom Scenery Builder. Using our build sets, or your own custom sets, create unlimited custom scenery that give your park a unique style. Objects created can saved with embedded meshes, textures, and thumbnails, then shared with friends. When finished simply drop into your library folder and they instantly become part of the custom libraries.

Extensive importing/exporting tools for easy file sharing. We have put extra effort into allowing players to easily share all their amazing designs with simple one click imports! Custom scenery, materials, lights, paths, parks and skies can be easily exported to a single file with an embedded thumbnail. When finished, simply drop into your library folder and they instantly become part of the custom library for easy inclusion into your projects.

Powerful real-time path tools. Please see the videos for a detailed view. This extremely powerful tool allows players to quickly build, layout their park with complex curved paths, walls, bridges, and foundations. You can even attach trees, meshes, or particles effects like torches that will be automatically created, and positioned, for you.

Particle Library - A few particle effects are included in this build, with the full particle editor coming in a future update. Particle effects are 80 percent complete.

Built in object libraries including shops, cafes, castle, and more... Easy placement makes creation a snap:

Flat ride library: PLEASE NOTE: Flat rides are static and just for aesthetics. The animation module is 60 percent complete and will be unlocked in a future update.

Light Library: Place lights easily with fully adjustable properties including color and attenuation;

Terra-forming. Our engine will procedurally paint your landscape based on user specified textures and parameters. 12 textures are used to accomplish the final result, so smooth transitioning is done for you. However we realize some may want to paint paths and since this tech already exists in the engine, we are looking at painting in an upcoming update (based on user request). Other than that, the terra-forming is very complete and powerful. Creating complex landscape is very simple, and easy to use.

Environmental library with customizable properties

Water with customizable properties.

Our next Phases IncludePhase 2: Custom flat ride designer and animator, with ultra realistic physics. This module is one of our finest. It includes proprietary tools and technologies that allow players to build custom rides from scratch, with amazing realism, using patented technology. This module is currently 60 percent complete.

Phase 3: Coaster construction. This module quite a lot already finished including on the fly rail type changing, coloring, station linking, rail supports, lifts, cat-walks, and more... However we want to continue to add additional features requested by the community.

Phase 4: Music streaming with new custom DLC sound tracks.

Phase 5: Custom train design. This module is extremely powerful and almost fully complete. Please refer to our videos for a detailed look. Here you can create almost any custom train imaginable, including importing your own custom meshes, built by you or downloaded from the community

Phase 6: Keyframer. This powerful module is 80 percent complete and is for advanced users that want to hand animate objects and physics for that extra detailed touch. Please see video library for a detailed look.

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June 26

We have some great news. We devoted some extra time this update cycle and created a new 64 bit build. We understand our community wants to build even bigger parks, and we share their excitement, This is a major step forward and will remove most of the memory limitations that previously existed, allowing players to create much larger theme parks. It also gave us a little performance boost, as a bonus. Combined with our new multi-threading, Theme Park Studio has made some great advances recently.

Also coming in the next update.....All flat rides will be rideable! Simply step into the queue line, wait for the gates to open, and walk up to the seat of your choice. A lot of work was put into the flat ride physics and construction, and the results were amazing. Our flat ride physics really excel in this genre and it comes shining through when you ride 1st person. All the subtleties of natural motion, not possible through manually created animations, make a huge difference when riding. Our unique approach makes you feel like you are there, riding the real thing!

Of course, our Phase 8 update is coming along great and will be released soon. In case you missed it, we created a video displaying our progress. We can't give an exact release date for the update just yet, but stay tuned. We hope you enjoy the video!

April 20

We are happy to announce phase 7 is complete. In this phase, we’ve integrated particle effects, fireworks, new lighting, dynamic environments, animated clouds, time lapse, weather effects, and more!

Theme Park Studio contains a very powerful particle engine. Users can create many types of effects using our extensive set of options and controls.

As with other modules of Theme Park Studio, particle effects are easy to use, plus fully customizable, appealing to both casual and advanced users. Casual users can enjoy a simple point-and-click method of adding particle effects to almost any scenery object, while advanced users have full access to the particle parameters for creating unique effects. We’ve introduced two new libraries: Particle Scenery and Particle Effects.

The Particle Effects Library is useful for adding particle effects to existing objects in your scene. Adding effects is as simple as clicking on the thumbnail, and then clicking on the object in your scene you want to receive the effect. For example, if you have a cabin in your scene, click on the smoke thumbnail, and then click on the cabin chimney to instantly add smoke. The smoke effect is now part of the cabin. When you move the cabin, the particle effect moves with it. You can even attach particle effects to flat rides!

New Procedural Skies and improved lighting:

This update also includes new procedural skies and improved lighting. The new dynamic skies include animated clouds, time-lapsed lighting, lens flares, weather effects, dynamic time of day rendering, and even Crepuscular Rays, which together produce stunning results.

Optimizations

We added some performance optimizations, with more to come. Depending on your hardware configuration, some of you may notice a significant performance increase when running parks with guests.

Undo

Finally, we have been working hard to implement community requests while developing the phases. In this update, we are starting to roll out Undo. In this phase, you can undo coaster rail transformation and deletion. We will continue to work hard to fulfill backer requests over the next phases.

We look forward to moving on to Phase 8 and appreciate our backers working with us during Early Access.

About This Game

Theme Park Studio is a powerful suite of tools that allows players to design, build, and experience stunning amusement parks of their own design. Players can build whatever they can imagine, and then share it online for others to experience.

'Theme Park Studio Professional Edition' is scheduled for use in 2014 by Intamin Amusement Rides to showcase their newest coaster designs.

Theme Park Studio includes Steam Workshop integration. You can now browse through libraries of Parks, Rides, Custom Scenery, and Environments built by the community, without ever leaving the program. There is also a new 'Publish' feature, for uploading your creations directly from Theme Park Studio.

The 'Enter Park' feature adds a new dimension by allowing players to take a virtual tour of community built parks. In addition, the upcoming Oculus Rift support will take the virtual park experience to a whole new level.

Theme Park Studio has been in development for 1 1/2 years and integrates our proprietary game engine and IDE used in the serious games industry.

Please join us, through early access, in continuing this exciting project. Early Access will provide the means to take this title even further, and make Theme Park Studio the ultimate theme park simulator.

Using our rich toolset, players begin by sculpting their terrain, creating lakes, rivers, and raising knolls and mountains. Next, the opening gate is set and paths are placed with our easy path tools. No staggered or sharp edges here, just smoothly curved pathways procedurally built on the fly. With the click of a button, fences are created, stairs are generated, and trees are procedurally placed. Now it's time to build some rides. Coaster creation is both easy and flexible. Coaster rails can be bent, twisted, and shaped into almost any design imaginable. Add brakes, accelerators, tunnels, or have the coaster scream through a custom mesh, like a volcano. There is virtually no limit to what you can come up with. Prefabricated template pieces are also provided as helpers. Want to add a batwing or cobra roll? Simply click the icon and it will drop right in. All the power combined with all the ease of use.

Theme Park Studio broke new ground when we unveiled our custom flat ride designer. This unique module allows to design, build, and invent custom rides. Physics can be applied to objects connected by custom joints. Next, animations are applied to these physics objects. Animation properties include, Torque, Force, Dampen Torque, Dampen Force, Position, Rotation, and Scale. With this functionality the number of flat rides you can create with Theme Park Studio is virtually unlimited! If building custom flat rides is not your thing, no problem, simply select from our library of pre-built rides. In just one click, the ride drops right in to your park, with full physics and animation built in.

Next, fill out your park with restaurants, gift shops, bathrooms, etc.. You can pick from our built in libraries, or download custom meshes and import them for maximum customization. Turn your park into a stunning, picturesque environment with our procedural vegetation libraries. With a simple click drop in trees, hedges, bushes, and flower beds, that subtly sway in the wind. Using our particle effects engine, add fountains, fireworks, smoke, and torches for the final touch. Finally, open the park to guests and watch the peeps tour your park and ride your custom coasters and flat rides. You can also take a first person virtual tour through your park, and experience your own rides. Theme Parks are easily saved and archived. You can upload them to one of the Theme Park Studio coaster exchange sites that will be coming out soon. Theme Park Studio is a product built for the community where players can truly build the amusement park of their dreams.

Theme Park Studio features include:

- Steam Workshop Integration. Players can now simply browse through libraries of Parks, Rides, Custom Scenery, and Environments, and with a couple clicks, become immersed in a virtual theme park world! You can also publish your custom built parks directly to Steam Workshop to share with the Steam community!

- Custom coaster creation. Players can bend, pull, and stretch coasters into any design they wish. Prefabricated templates are provided as helpers, if desired

- Particle effects, including fire, smoke, fountains, fireworks, and weather effects. Our particle effects module is very versatile, allowing the player to create a wide range of effects. Particles can have triggers for setting up shows or like coasters splashing through water.

- Landscaping: Import your own height maps and textures to create stunning landscapes, or custom sculpt one of your own design.

- Water: Control water parameters like speed, level, color, and ripple size.

- Vegetation: Our engine features an advanced vegetation solution. Our proprietary technology allows players to build everything from grass to elaborate oaks. Trees are procedurally generated and can be controlled by custom wind and turbulence settings. This technology has been integrated into Theme Park Studio.

- Oculus Rift Support: Due to overwhelming requests for this support, we are proud to announce this cutting edge technology will be included in all versions of Theme Park Studio.

There are some bugs and crashes but not too many for a Pre-Released game. They already have several different types of rollercoaster and rides, but I wish they would add more. Countless hours of fun and hardwork goes into this game and when you finally make the one rollercoaster or park perfect it feels amazing. 10/10

I am going to make a review based on my opinion, Theme Park Studio is a kickstarter funded game from Pantera Entertainment. This was "the new coaster game" since at the time, rct world was not announced. Now, my reason for disliking this game is because how I thought it was going to be. From the kickstarter videos which had premade coasters makes it look like a game. A fun easy to use coaster builder. But really. it's a bragging program where you try to make a real good and realistic coaster. This game goes for realism rather than fun. People can design tracks as ideas for real life or imitate real life by creating a coaster just like one from a nearby park. But that's just it. The game probably won't give you the fun times as rct will. But this game isn't bad. It's good for people who want to make a realistic coaster/park and create the ultimate realistic park. But this is my review so I rate it bad. Good for some people. Bad for Some people. Still a game that people can like.

After 1000 hours Theme Park Studio, I will write a review. Before, I want to say "TPS is not a RCT". It is an editor/game where you have the possibility to built your park of yor dreams. More on that later. Please make sure to read exactly the roadmap by when each phase will be published before you buy the game! Who is too lazy to read, will possibly not get what he imagines! These are a early version of the game, which is fully published only in a couple of weeks/month!

TPS is an Early Access game. It is a game which is still under development. For people who do not understand or refuse to understand. TPS has made great steps in the past. The roller coaster editor is just great and the gaming performance was also working. TPS is not perfect, but it is going very well. There are a few crashes, but that you have to accept. The new route editor is also great and easy to use.

There was a lot of work on the usability. With the Steam Workshop you can download you also individual buildings. There are already many good buildings and Flatrides. Everyone who buys the game, support this great product and should not expect a finished game .... and who wants to compare it with NL2 ..... Is just a fanboy or has not understood it.

Both games are great, but have about his strengths and weaknesses. Smart people recognize the right. That's all I'm saying ....

Soon the Peeps come to the park and lift TPS on another level. I recommend anyone TPS, they have patience and understands what "Early Access" means. We help with the purchase carry on the product even better. Pantera listening to his community.

It is now quite impressive what options you have. I can not list them all. Buy yourself the game. You will not regret it.

If all modules work together 100%, here we expect one of the best "Theme Park Simulations" (not roller coaster simulations).

Theme Park Studio has come a long way since the very first stage with the release of the current phase (particle effects). With this release amazing effects are possible, from dynamic skies to waterfalls and more.

During the development of this game many things were changed or added at the suggestions made by the community; the coaster builder was made easier along with the building of paths. You can curve your paths, add items along the path automatically which was not available in other games. Edge scrolling was added, the controls have the option to be made easier (basic in the tools/options menu).

And with the release of phase 7 many great particle effects were added.